Les Miserables, Episode 1 - The Bishop

Orson Welles adapted Victor Hugo's masterpiece, Les Miserables, for the radio. Aired in seven parts, this is Episode 1.

Featured in this clip are the following story lines: Jean Valjean steals from a bishop who forgives him, covers for him (with the police) and tells the former prisoner (Valjean) he can turn his life around (if he wants to).

Welles plays the role of Valjean, in this broadcast, and also reads from the book which Frederick Douglass called his favorite.